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One of my favourite photos from my trip to Warsaw in 2006

depsidase

onscreen-heartthrobs

Charles Vanel & Yves Montand in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s “The Wages of Fear” April 22, 1953.

prideprejudce

so today a public health official guy came into my class to give a lecture on disaster awareness and he was talking about house fires and mentioned that the reason people most likely die during a house fire is because they refuse to leave their pet inside or they go back to get their pet. and right when he said this my friend immediately turned his head and looked at me and in that moment I had the most complete and genuine acceptance take over my body. I would 100% in front of my family and Jesus himself walk straight back into some raging inferno that was once my house to go get my fat cat. I nodded back

prideprejudce

the best part of this post is reading all the tags from animal people who would also go back to save their pets. like no hesitation. walk backwards from heaven straight back into hell. someone even said they would go back for their fish. amazing

sterna-hirundo

If you are a person who would walk into a blazing inferno for your animal, and your pet has free movement around the house, here’s a training exercise that could help save you both:

1) Set off your smoke alarm or play the sound on your phone (if your home has no smoke alarms, pease get some!)

2) stand BY THE FRONT DOOR to hand out treats

Do this a couple times and then keep it up NO EXCEPTIONS. Accidentally set the alarm off cooking? Treats by the door. Smoke alarm sound on TV? Treats by the door. Changing your smoke alarm batteries twice a year like you’re supposed to? Give them a test run and your pets get treats by the door.

Most dogs and cats will clue in VERY quickly that hearing that specific sound means go to the front door and wait for treats.

If there’s an emergency and even if you leave by another way, you will still know the most likely place your pet(s) is and can direct first responders to help.

You can also do this for any other kind of emergency alarm. My friend had both her cats trained to go to the front door for a tsunami siren.

circlesquarehole

nsfw wire embogs (c*mmission for swords)

bluekittenscrylukewarmtears

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

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nicholasjwheatley

emfrej moment

clawmarks

The naturalist’s library - William Jardine - 1833 - via Internet Archive

chechula

PF I drew last year for a local game studio ♥

chechula

To answer non-czech people's questions under this post. There is a tradition in Czechia to fast the whole day before the big dinner on 24.12. And your reward if you do so is... seeing the golden pig. I've never really believed in czech version of Santa. I did know it was parents. Yet I believed in the golden pig for ...gh...I still believe in you, golden pig! Golden pig brings you nothing. Your reward is just the pure sight of the creature.

But there is another tradition in Czechia, which is...to bake like 24 varieties of Christmas cookies. That is why the fasting task is just... impossible.